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m **>«*! I •? * -w-v *• ■ * David Earal Fred First The Bar Mitxva of David Steal of Atlanta will take place at 9:18 a.m. Monday, Sept. 5, at ‘ Beth JbcoI£A con st kidduah will follow. ,vid ia tHe eon of Mr. and Mn. Abe Esral. He ia the ( Mr. and Mrs. Steal the late Mr. and EfcraT . Cantor Iaaac Goodfriend (third from right), president of the Atlanta District, ZionUt Organisation of America, preeenta the Adolph Rosenberg Media Award for Kfar Silver Agricultural High School scholarahipa to Dr. Joseph Sternstein, national ZOA president. At left is Ben Golden, past president of the Atlanta District. Atlanta Municipal Court ' Judge Arthur M. Kaplan was recently sent a certificate of ap preciation by President Jimmy Carter for his volunteer life sav ing and rescue efforts. Over the last twenty-five years, Judge Kaplan has administered emergency first aid to thousands of accident victims and has sav ed many lives. O O O Rabbi Richard Fagan, 26- year-old recent graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, has been named the new rabbi of Savannah’s Agudath Achitt Synagogue. A dergraduate degree from Dickenson College in 1972 and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is . associated with the Institute for Religious and Social Studies, a consortium of Jewish and Christian clergy, and the National Institute for Jewish and Christian Relations. He was on the board of directors of Pro ject Eire, a program to aid the poor and elderly on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. O O * L 1Chaim - To Life the WSB Radio-ADL summer program will present a discussion of affir mative action, preferential treatment, and racial quotas on Sunday, Aug. 28, at 10:90 p.m., on WSB-Radio 750. Charles F. Wittenstein, ADL’s Southern Counsel, and Professor Abraham L. Davis of Morehouse College will debate the issue of preferential treatment and quotas in education and employ ment, particularly as it relates to the case of a white, male stu dent who was denied admission to the University of California Madical School despite qualifications that apparently exceeded those of some minority students who were admitted un der a special admissions quota established for minority students. Aubrey Morris and Stuart ah will moderate the Mery Davis Mary Davis has announced her candidacy for the Atlanta City Council from the Sixth District A Morningside resident and active community leader for the past ten years, Mrs. Davis is a past president and current board member of the Morningside-Lenox Park Association, having led the successful neighborhood ef fort to defeat 1-485. Her ser vice includes membership on the city’s Future Funding Commission, the city’s Task Force on Energy, and the City Charter Commission’s Ad visory Committee. Mrs. Davis is currently a member of the State’s Com- jssion on the Status of omen and the National Association of Neighborhoods Task Force. She was a found ing member of the City-Wide League of Neighborhoods and the Atlanta Coalition on the Transportation Crisis. A native Georgian and a graduate of Emory Universi ty, Mary Davis is married to economist Dr. Sidney Davis, a former resident of Charles ton, where he was president of AZA. They have three chil dren, Anna, 16, Riva, 18, and : 7. Esther. democracy pervaded the 12th floor reception hall of the United States Mission to the United Nations recently, reports The Southern Israelite's UN cor respondent David Horowitz. Oc casion was the swearing in by a smiling Ambassador Andrew Young of one of his tong-time comrades-in-arms in the Civil Rights movement, Allard K. Lowenatein, as Ambassador in charge of Special Political Af fairs for the world organization. In a passing remark, Lowenstoin let the many guests attending know that “my father was a Zionist.” NEWCOMERS Lewengrub dim-ion o o o A steady increase in doctoral candidates at the Hebrew Union Coilege-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati has prompted the establishment of a Graduate School of Jewish Aliza Begin, wife of Premier Meoachem Begin, is well again after a bout of pneumonia and she was to accompany her hus band on his official visit to Rumania this Mr. and Mrs. Joel A. Harris of Atlanta announce the birth of a son, Samuel Jay (Shimon Yaakov), on July 28. Grand parents are Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Sackett and Mr. and Mrs. Haskell Harris, all of Atlanta. Hie bris was performed by Dr. Mark Safra. O O $ Capt and Mrs. Yale A. Shure of El Paso, Tex. announce the birth of a daughter, Jean Naomi (Yohanah Nehama), on August 10. Mrs. Shure is the former Marilyn Rich. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Rich and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Shure, all of Atlanta. Great-grandfather is Abraham I. Siegel of Atlanta. Naming ceremonies were held August 18 in the Fort Bliss Jewish Chapel. d O Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thomp son of Atlanta announce the birth of a son, Jeremy Benjamin, on May 20. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Harry Alpert of In dianapolis and Mr. and Mrs. Morris Thompson of Vienna, Va. The bris was performed by Dr. Mark Safra. O $ $ Mr. and Mrs. David J. Perling of Atlanta announce the birth of a daughter, Suzanne Renee, op August 5. Grandparents are Mrs. Irvin Potish of Springfield, Ill. and the late Irvin Potish and the late Mr. and Mrs. Joe Perling of Manchester, Ga. Fred First, former head of the Atlanta Police Bureau’s Executive Protection Section, has announced hia candidacy for the Atlanta City Council city-wide Post 16, First joined the Atlanta Bureau of Police Services upon his arrival in Atlanta in 1970. While police- community relations officer, he received the Good Neighbor Award of the National Council of Christians and Jews for “elimination of inter-group prejudice.” He also worked with the B’nai B’rith Anti- Defamation League in forma tion of the Georgia Associa tion of Police-Community Relations Officers. A native of Washington, D.C., First lived for several years in Miami, where his parents, Malcolm and Frances Rosansky First, were among the founders of a B’nai B’rith lodge in North Miami. Beach. First is a member of the Temple and Atlanta Lodge B’nai B’rith. He and his wife Faye live in Peachtree Hills with their teenage children, Marty and Ardis. Robyn Lm Cohen The Bat Mitzva of Robyn Lee Cohen of Doraville will take at 10:80 a.m. Saturday, 8, at Temple Sinai. A con gregational kidduah will follow. Robyn is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Cohen. She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cohen of Atlanta j Mrs. Carl Loef of Gainesville, Ga. The Jewish National Fund of fice in Atlanta reports that, as a result of numerous requests, an Elvis Presley Memorial Forest has been established in the American Bicentennial Park in Israel. Numerous trees have already been planted in rock- singer Presley’s memory. O O Several courses of particular Jewish interest are included in “Evening at Emory” for fall 1977. “Sephardic Art and Musk” begins September 19 and will be taught by Sol Baton. .Tzfira Gitay offers “Jerusalem,” a tour around historic monuments, also beginning September 19. “God in Search of Man: The Biblical Dialogue Between God and Man” will be taught by Yehoshua Gitay beginning September 22. o o o Although the Miami Beach Police department had only a few Jews among its 250 members, both the new and the retiring police chiefs are Jewish. Rocky Pomerance, who rose to the presidency of the Inter national Association of Chiefs of Police in 1974, is relinquishing the reins to his assistant, Col. Larry Cotzin.